About the bill
Should Glenn Fine be the person charged with overseeing spending from last month’s $2 trillion stimulus bill?
Context
Among the numerous provisions in the $2 trillion CARES Act, enacted in response to the current coronavirus, was the creation of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC). The 21-member watchdog group is tasked with overseeing the law’s spending, to hopefully ferret out waste, fraud, and abuse.
Three days later, on March 20, Glenn Fine was appointed head of the committee. The appointment met with general bipartisan approval; Fine had served as a relatively noncontroversial inspector general for the Justice Department and later the Defense Department under both Democratic and Republican presidents.
But on April 7, President Trump removed Fine from his post at the Defense Department. This removed Fine from ...
Sponsor and status
116th Congress (2019–2021)
This bill was introduced on April 17, 2020, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Position statements
History
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Apr 17, 2020
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Introduced
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H.R. 6543 (116th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 6543. This is the one from the 116th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 116th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2019 to Jan 3, 2021. Legislation not enacted by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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